Have thine own way,Lord!
Have thine own way!
Thou art the potter, I am the clay.
Mould me and make me after thy will,
While I am waiting, yielded and still.
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When Jesus had spoken these words, he lifted up his eyes to heaven and said, "Father, the hour has come; glorify thy Son that the Son may glorify thee, since thou hast given him power over all flesh, to give eternal life to all whom thou hast given him. And this is eternal life, that they know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent. I glorified thee on earth, having accomplished the work which thou gavest me to do; and now, Father, glorify thou me in thy own presence with the glory which I had with thee before the world was made. "I have manifested thy name to the men whom thou gavest me out of the world; thine they were, and thou gavest them to me, and they have kept thy word. Now they know that everything that thou hast given me is from thee; for I have given them the words which thou gavest me, and they have received them and know in truth that I came from thee; and they have believed that thou didst send me.
Gospel of St John 17: 1-8
Long my imprisoned spirit lay
Fast bound in sin and nature's night;
Thine eyes diffused a quickening ray -
I woke; the dungeon flamed with light;
My chains fell off, my heart was free.
I rose, went forth, and followed thee.
A verse from a song |
The Intercessor
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Grant us to know the glory you share with the Father.
Grant us to know your inner nature and divine power.
In that knowledge may we experience
the greatness of eternal life blooming within us.
So shall it be. *
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I have vision. Martin Luther King had a dream, but I have a vision. A vision of a group of people who are free, transformed and able to embrace life, both here in this world and in the spiritual worlds, and who are not afraid to make this life, this physical life, a life that expresses their spirit. I do not agree with the Gnostics who subjected their physical life to spirit. Spirit never asks you to sacrifice your physical life; spirit asks you to express your life. But the life that your must express has to be in honesty, in compassion, in love, in strength, in wisdom, in understanding. Once you start doing that, then you are part of that vision that I see for the future.
Rev Mario Schoenmaker
in 'The Seed Planted' *
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* Selected extracts from the 'Meditations for the Days of Lent' by Rev Mario Schoenmaker